We love summer time here in our home, but to us playing in the garden is an all year round activity. The picture above was taken one cold afternoon in our garden. Our twins love running around barefoot in the summer and come winter we’ll wrap them up warm and kick a ball about! We…
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Chad Valley Dolls House and Vtech My First Tablet Review
Read moreWhen I think back to my childhood and in particular to the toys that my twin sister and I had, I always remember our dolls house. Our dad made it for us. It was wooden, pink and had lights that actually worked. We would spend hours playing with it, making up imaginary scenarios! After looking…
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Messy Play: Glitter Finger Paint
Read moreFollowing on from my last messy play post which was all about the wonderfully weird world of gloop, I have another post to share with you that was even messier than gloop! I’m always on the lookout for creative products to engage and stimulate our girls senses. I love messy play just as much, if not more,…
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Creating an exciting environment for kids to play in
Read moreImage courtesy of marin/freedigitalphotos.net Creating an exciting and engaging environment for your children to play in is no doubt the ideal that all parents strive for. The reality for most, though, is that it can be quite difficult to achieve. Toys have a habit of spreading across a house and mums and dads are often…
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Is it irresponsible to take your child to play group when they're ill?
Read moreUndoubtedly, the first time you ever take your baby to a mum and baby group the chances of them catching a cold are probably quite high. I remember the first time I took the girls to baby, a few days later they had both caught colds and from then on every other month they would have runny…
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Finding Mummy Friends (continued)
Read moreI wrote a post (click here to view) a while ago about how to make friends with other mums. I explained how I found it diffcult to find someone to chat with at baby group each week because most of the mums already knew each other. I would say hello and have a brief chat with…
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Do you give your baby gadgets?
Read moreWhen our girls were around 6/7 months old they started to notice our iPhones. At first I saw no harm in allowing our girls to hold our phones and watch a video on it or simply play with it. I’ve changed my mind now though and have asked people not to give their phones to…
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Finding Mummy Friends
Read moreBefore our twins were born I didn’t have many friends outside of work. I have my twin sister which is great but friends from school have all moved away or had families of their own and were too busy or too far away to socialise. Now that our twins are here and they’re almost 16…